20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Two
The above photograph was taken on March 25th 1936. How can we be so certain? The marquee to the left can be seen at the beginning of a video clip below, the occasion being the [more…]
Hobbies
Hobbies
Going Postal Saturday Puzzles Number 207
SOD-YOU-KO 207 Word Search 207 First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins one of these. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 206 and [more…]
Fiction
The Girlies’ Cottage
In the Devon village closest to the Andrei Sakharov Dissidents’ Campsite lived two young dissidents affectionately known to everyone as the Girlies. Although they looked like two peas in a pod, the Girlies were not [more…]
Engineering
Unnecessary Engineering
Project 1: Scope Dials Welcome all and please gather round so I can waste a few minutes of your precious time on describing something that didn’t really need doing and no doubt would interest few. [more…]
17th Century
A View From The Greenhouse (A Savile Jibe, Really?)
If you thought strawberry tales was boring, then I guess you’d better hold my coat (as the saying goes). Following several days of not being able to even enter the greenhouse, apart from a cursory [more…]
Arts
Another Caribbean Christmas, Part Four
Day 6 – Wednesday 29th December – St. Maarten Good morning from the beautiful tiny island of St. Maarten. I woke as we approached the port just as the sun was coming up, I think [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Nine
Monday Morning all, another week stretches in front of me, I wonder what will happen this week. Bozzie was on the phone to that Muslim woman who claims she was told that she was being [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part One
No mystery here, this is Elihu, your modest reviewer of photographs grandfather. His father was also called Elihu and his grandfather was the John who Puffins with instant recall will remember lost half of the [more…]
Hobbies
Going Postal Saturday Puzzles Number 206
SOD-YOU-KO 206 Word Search 206 First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins one of these. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 205 and [more…]